Monday, 8 August 2016

The case against Jewish tough love

"Their mistake was, among many other mistakes,that
pursuing and trying to punish other people, claiming that you are doing
it of their own good, is a morally depraved and lethally dangerous one.
It is OK to be for something. It is also OK to be against something,
but a moral doctrine that includes on penalizing others-for their own
good- is lethally dangerous, morally depraved, and illegitimate.

Sociologists
have pointed out, that the reason communists and other radical
progressive revolutions have been so violent, is because of their
self-image as the messengers of progress. Once a person has such a
compelling belief that all that is needed for world to emerge, is that
others drop their resistance, targeting others is no longer seen as an
act of violence, it is an act of promoting progress."